Manure-spreader.



MANURE-SPREADER.

specification of Letters Patent.

Piafentea May 11., isoe.

Application filed June 5, 1908, Serial No. 438.878. Renewed March 1,1909. Serial No. 480,758.

To all wlzo'm 'it may concem:

Be it known that I, DAVJD J. Buntu, a citizen of the United States,residing` at Spencer, in the county of Owen and State of l'ndiana, haveinvented certain new and useful lmprovements in Manure-]headers, ofwhich the following is a specilicatioi'i.

This invention relates to improvenicnts in machines for spreading manureand the object of the invention is to provide a holder for saidfertilizer which will absolutely avoid the packing of that material outof reach of the distributinr beaters but will dclix'cr the manureuniformly and regularly to the beaters.

The object also is to provide a machine which will be simple inconstruction, incxpensive in the cost of manufacture, easy to understandand operate and of light draft.

I accomplish the objectsof myinvention by the mechanism illustrated inthe accompanyinv drawing, in which- Tigure 1 is a dctail in sideelevation of my improved machine; Fig. 2 a top plan view of same; Fig'.3 a detail in Vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 adetail in verticaLsection on the line -1-4 of Fig. 2.

Like characters of reference inclicate like parts throughout the severalviews of the drawing.v o

5 `represents the body-frame of my machine and 6 a pair of Wheelsmounted on axle- 4stubs' carried by the frame 5.

7 is a tongue to which the draft animals will be hitched andS is a seatsupported by the tongue upon which the operator will. ride.

Supported above the frame 5 by suitable standards 9 isa shaft 10 uponwhich 'a reel or drum forming a receptacle for the manure, is mounted.This drum is cylindrical in shape and its. sides are provided with asei'iesof cn'- cumferential slots 12 for the entrancc therethrough ofthe beater-teeth. ln practice the walls of the drum will preferably boformed -out' of annular slats and these slats will bo' substantially aseries of rims or fellics such as are used for-vehicle Wheels.

The ends 125 of the drum will bo solid and will form the supports'forthe longitudinal bars 14, here shown as four in number, which bars willprovide supports for the slats or fellies 15.' .ln order to place' thebars 14 in far enough from the surface of the drum to be out, ofstriking contact with the tecth of.

the' bcater itvbecomes necessary to provide the blocks 18 between thebars 14 and the rim for the attachmcnt of the rim thereto. A section ofeach rim or fclly or slat in the same longiludinal row, is dctached fromthe rcmaindcr or' body portion of the slat to pro. vidc a door throughwhich the. drum may be xiillcd. 'l`hcsc slat-scctions arc attached by lhingcs 21 and their opposiic cnds art` fasi tcncd by a catch 22.sprocltet wheel mountcd on onc of tht` stub-:mies is connected bylink-bclt 23 with a sproclct wheel '24 mountcd yon the shal't ll)thcrcb)r allording a means for the rotation ofihe drum as the machiiu`movcs forward across a. field. Pivotally mounlcd on said stub-axlcs ateach cud of the niachine'aro 'the arms 'ZG and at the out/cr ends ofthese arms at the rear of the machine the bea-ier roll 28 is mountcd.This roll has the tccth 30 placed thereon so as to enter the manurccarryimvr drum through slots 12 in the sides of said drum. A leverextension 31 at one side of the machine pro` vides means whereby thearms 26 and through said arms the beater 28 may be raised or lowcrcd inthe arc 'of a circle. This movement of the beater roll brings it toward01' away from the manure-carrying drum so as to cause the beater tceth30 to enter the drum a correspondingl)v greater or less distance. This oviously provides a means for regulating the uantity of fertilizerremoved from the drum w the beater teeth.

As the beater is located at the rear of the machine and at the bottom ofthe drum the fertilizer is discharged upon the ground at the rear of themachine and as the manurc is taken out of the drum by the beater teeththe mass above is brought into contact with the beatcr teeth bytherotation of the drum. The bringing of the fertilizer into the path ofthe beater te'eth is also facilitated by gravity which causes thematerial to fall in the dircc tion of said beater. A i

A given adjustment of tliebcater is retained -bv means of dog 33 carriedby lever 31, which entcrs the teeth of rack 34 on one of the standards9.

Having thus fully described my invention what l claim as new and wish tosecure by .Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. [n a manure spreadcr, a receptacle to contain the manure to be spreadconsisting of a horizontal revolving drum the periphery ofsaid drumbeing provided with a series of annular slots, and a revolvingbeater-roll having teeth which enter the slots of the drum.

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ing recepteole comprising :L horizontally mounted revolvmgT drum thesides of^se1d drum bemg formed out of e serres ot ennuler 2. In a manurespreader, e menure hold- 1 dueingr the menure into the drum, meansconnected With the said Wheels for rotating' the drum, e heater-rollmounted below the drum and having: teeth to enter the drum slats incombination With a revolving beeterr roll located et the bottom of thedrum, said beater-roll having teeth which enter the*` r heuter-roll.

tacle comprising a horizontal revolving drum having annularly slottedsldes In eomlnnu- Itlon wlth a beater-roll lnounted outslde of the drumparallel With and odjaeent thereto, said' beater-roll having teethenterng the 'drum through the slots in the letter, means for rotatlngthe beeter-roll and means for l varying its (list-once from the drum tovery the extension into the drum of the beuter between the Slots of theletter` means for l'eguletlng the distnnce of the heeter-roll from thedrum :md means for rotaiing the 5. In :1 niemu-e spreader, a receptalelofor the nmnure eonsisting of :r horizontal Y`lin drical revolving drum,the periphery of ::-I

which has a` series of annular slots for tln` eutru-nee of bezrter-teeththerethroug'h, :Lud means in said drum for opening lt to perlnit thedrum to he elnu'g'ed with lnenure.

lu fitness Whereof, l, have hereunto set `:nv hand and Seul utfudienupolis, Indiana,

this 29th day of May, A. l). one thousulnd nrne hundred und eight.

DAX/ll) J. BEEM. [u 8.]

`Witnesses:

lJB. t'VonnNnn,

F. VV. WOERNER.

